If you go to an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting, one of the first things they offer you, after the stale coffee, is a copy of the “serenity prayer,” which states, “God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom to know the difference.”

In essence, they’re reminding you to take responsibility for what you can control, but not worry about things that are out of your hands.

If the Democratic National Committee were smart they’d print this prayer everywhere that they have the space. They could put it on the stationary, biodegradable cups, Chuck Schumer’s forehead — everywhere.

They need help and they need help badly. Right now they aren’t just living in denial, they’re doing it while tying off a vein and injecting some Michael Moore logic directly into their bloodstream.

The Democratic Party establishment is aware that they have a train wreck on their hands, but they’re hell-bent on blaming the Republicans and Donald Trump for all of their problems.

While speaking to the Los Angeles Times Washington bureau, Congressman Adam Schiff, D-Burbank, vented, “The radical nature of this government is radicalizing Democrats, and that’s going to pose a real challenge to the Democratic Party, which is to draw on the energy and the activism and the passion that is out there, but not let it turn us into what we despised about the tea party.”

Schiff also fretted, “There’s a whole new element, which is the reaction to the Trump administration that makes this different in kind, certainly different in intensity, than I think we’ve ever seen after an election. … The more radical the administration is, the more radicalized our base becomes, which just feeds the Breitbart crowd, and who knows where that ends.”

To summarize, Schiff thinks the Democratic Party base has gone crackers and may eventually act out in anger against their elected officials, but if they do it’s all Trump’s fault.

But vocal elements of the Democratic Party were headed in a radical direction long before Donald Trump became the Republican nominee for president.

Occupy Wall Street began railing against capitalism in Zuccotti Park in New York City back in September 2011, setting up squatter camps while Trump was still taping “The Apprentice” for NBC.

In 2012, while then-Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa was booed off the stage at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C., when he tried to include God and Israel in the party platform, Trump was busy launching Trump International Realty, a luxury residential real estate firm.

Black Lives Matter began in the summer of 2013 after George Zimmerman’s acquittal in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin and gained steam after the 2014 deaths of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., and Eric Garner in New York City. The protests, marred by violence and the destruction of property, soon followed. On Trump’s calendar in 2014? Feuding with Rosie O’Donnell, who had just returned to ABC’s “The View.”

But Schiff thinks that the Democrats held it together until Trump descended down those gilded escalators at Trump Tower in June 2015 and announced his candidacy for the presidency of the United States.

Democrats were perfectly fine with radicals when they thought that they could fold them into the tent and turn their anger into electoral victory.

But that plan blew up in their face like a hillbilly’s rifle.

Now they are looking for someone to blame. My advice is to look in the mirror — and maybe have a stiff drink.

John Phillips is a CNN political commentator and can be heard weekdays at 3 p.m. on “The Drive Home with Jillian Barberie and John Phillips” on KABC/AM 790.